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One kilo of fresh red mustard caps is currently available for € 3. A kilo of dry hats costs 120 euros.
In the advertisements, the buyers assure that they will come to the place and buy mushrooms.
The season is both shorter and worse
“Perhaps it can only seem from one side here that the myrtle grows in every corner and the money is easily earned. In fact, this is not the case. If you want to collect a tangible number of mussels, you need to know the places where they grow.
Usually there are more in birch forests, but they can also be found in fir trees, ”explained Valentas Rakauskas, director of the Memel Goods company established in the Šilutė district.
He himself buys musmires for the second year, but assured that this year’s results are clearly worse. Dry weather should prevail in the collection and drying of muskrats, and it has often rained in western Lithuania.
If last year the season lasted until November, it looks like it will end soon this year.
V. Rakauskas has indicated to the voters of the Muskiers that they must be cleaned and not killed. When drying at a temperature of 50 degrees, the bottom of the drying should remain white, if it darkens, it is no longer suitable. Dried muskrats should break easily and should be kept in airtight containers.
“People calculate and evaluate the best way to collect them: whether to sell them fresh or dry. Some quickly summarize that it is better to dry and then sell. We have several regular flying voters. But new ones are being added ”, said the interlocutor.
According to him, in Lithuania it is still surprising that it is worth collecting musmirs, but in fact there are at least five buyers. So there is a lot of competition.
Photo by Alvydas Januševičius / 15min / Musmirė
Trips to foreign universities
According to V. Rakauskas, the mushrooms are exported to universities in Western Europe and America, where they are used for research. Part of the fly is also bought by pharmaceutical companies.
“It is difficult to say why there are so many buyers in Lithuania: perhaps the Lithuanians are more enterprising, perhaps cheaper labor. I don’t think more muskets are growing here,” the interlocutor was surprised. According to him, the competition is really a lot.
The director of the company often goes to the woods to look for mushrooms, not mushrooms. When collecting musmirs, other fungi are omitted.
“I don’t really put boletus in the same basket. I leave them for other mushrooms ”, smiled the interlocutor.
There are rules for collecting red musmirs. Edible mushrooms such as gooseberries, boletus or others should not be placed in a basket with poisonous musk.
It is advisable to collect the mushrooms with gloves and try not to touch your face or eyes with your hands to avoid irritating the skin.
“It just came to our attention then. However, that opinion is incorrect: they, like other fungi, can have worms,” added V. Rakauskas.
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